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Babatunde Olaifa on the biggest football website in Africa, Goal.com
“If there's breaking news about a local football star or a Nigerian team, we're there to report it.”
Adebayi Adegbembo, Genii Games on educational apps to promote Yoruba language and culture
“Google doesn't allow Nigerians to sell apps. We can't be merchants on the Play Store."”
Olufunbi Folayi, Passion Incubator on providing a “nursery school” for non-tech entrepreneurs
“Talking Books and Fashion Cabal are going to be launched at the end of this month.”
Nkiru Balonwu, CEO, music platform Spinlet on how mobile operators take most of their revenues
“The distinction between us and iTunes is that we specialise, particularly in African music.”
Bastian Gotter of Lagos incubator Spark on providing services for Africans coming online
“When we started there weren't any incubators in Nigeria. Now there's 3-4 so the seed level environment has improved significantly”
Olakunle Ogungbamila, Kuluya Games on striking distribution deals in China and India
“"Mobile operators take a big chunk if you go through them. You're basically working for them."”
Andrea Bohnstedt, Africa Assets on the challenges of SME investing and the African tech sector
“The potential for the ICT sector is enormous but SMEs are not in that start-up environment that attracts a lot of hype.”
Tonje Bakang on his new online film and TV platform for francophone Africa, Afrostream
“In our library, we have movies and documentaries about Afro-American and African culture. We feature Black film-makers.”
John Kieti, m:lab on its Mobile Ventures Impact programme and Pivot East
“Mobile Impact Ventures Programme is designed to increase the pipeline of investment opportunities in the impact sector.”
Eric Osiakwan, co-founder Angel Fair on angel investing in Africa
“We're not another conference, not another event. The most important thing we try to do is to get people to do deals.”
Five entrepreneurs at IDEA incubator in Lagos discuss their start-ups
“The cream of the crop pitch their business ideas”
Co-founder Ralph Tamuno on Nigerian online travel company Wakanow.com
“We are able to take 400+ people to the World Cup and that gave us much needed revenues and we were able to start talking to investors”
Piriye Isokrari, 960Music on creating a major record label in Nigeria
“We want to be the premier major label in Nigeria and we're trying to put the structure of a major record label in place”
Jeremy Gordon and Caine Kamau on Flashcast, a location aware ad tool for Nairobi’s matatus
“We can show content related to where the bus is right now and where it's heading next.”
Tom Makau on Kenya’s energy shortfall and why energy is so expensive there
“Kenya's energy shortfall is 700 MW. We have 1,300 MW generation capacity, 70% of which is hydro.”
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